Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Samuel Palmer was what eventually led to Keating 's discovery . |
| 2 | Another , this time from a lance-corporal serving on the western Front and evidently of an extreme Nazi mentality , expressly referred to Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ in a malevolent tirade , thanking inter alia the Stürmer for remaining true to its principles on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ and applauding the introduction of the Yellow Star now also in the western occupied territories : ‘ … |
| 3 | The cold of the ground slowly seeped through Riven 's bedroll to chill his back , and he edged closer to the fire , sick of the aches in his bones and counting out in his mind the hours before he had to go on watch . |
| 4 | Differences of opinion over Dorotheum 's long-term strategy with Alfred Karny , head of Dorotheum 's board of directors , apparently led to Ressler 's forced resignation . |
| 5 | He poured water on his handkerchief , then gently dabbed at Clare 's chin . |
| 6 | Sir Brian suddenly knelt at Athelstan 's feet and sketched the sign of the cross in the air . |
| 7 | Griffiths far instance , only came across Lewis 's power of imaginative invention and insight of which I had no conception before . |
| 8 | Sighvat was in Olaf 's service at the time , and his Vestrfararvísur ( Western Travel Verses ) name Earl Hakon , son of Earl Eric of Lade , as acting with Cnut , and speak repeatedly of money offered to Olaf 's men , while the Tøgdrápa of Thorarin Praise-Tongue , who apparently sailed with Cnut 's fleet , indicates that he went first to Denmark to assemble his ships in the Limfjord in Jutland , and then proceeded north along the Norwegian coast to Trondheim . |
| 9 | How much of Laura 's promiscuity was fact , and what only existed in Woolridge 's overactive imagination , we shall never know . |
| 10 | Azmaveth only laughed at Lucien 's perplexity . |
| 11 | So went to Andre 's and had lunch there and went on to , to a , play ball , then er , there was called , and my mother and I had |
| 12 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 13 | For no particular reason she suddenly thought of Sousan 's severe-faced school teacher . |
| 14 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 15 | The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks . |
| 16 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 17 | It suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events . |
| 18 | An incriminating document , apparently pilfered from EPA 's files , casts the agency 's attitude toward science in a new light . |
| 19 | Accordingly , he was granted and Empire title challenge in 1931 at Leicester where he duly disposed of England 's Phil Scott in under two rounds . |
| 20 | These various schemes proved problematic , however , and little came of Coxe 's ambitions , though they were briefly the subject of government interest in 1719 , when the question arose of the English title to this part of America . |
| 21 | Leadership of the French musical renaissance soon passed to d'Indy 's new creation , the Schola Cantorum , founded in 1894 . |
| 22 | Such a page , offered to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York , for £25,000 , finally led to James 's arrest , as the sheet was recognised by Dr Estelle Whelan of the Centre for Iranian Studies at Columbia University , to whom the Met had turned for a second opinion . |
| 23 | I was profoundly relieved when the law was relaxed in 1967 , but I think it just added to Hugh 's problems . |
| 24 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 25 | They finally arrived at Lizzy 's ward . |
| 26 | They demurred politely , but finally succumbed to Alan 's persuasion . |
| 27 | MPs soon heard about Palmerston 's attempt to change the design , and over forty of them , led by Elcho , called on Palmerston on 29th July , 1859 , the day after Scott 's second letter , to say that they thought Scott 's design should be adopted . |
| 28 | It is not at all incongruous that Wilson , who thus insisted on Eliot 's Americanness , should a few years later , in his pioneering classic Axel 's Castle ( 1931 ) , insist on Eliot 's Frenchness , thus giving substance and weight to Untermeyer 's too glib acknowledgement of ‘ the Laforgue mechanism ’ . |
| 29 | At the impressionable age of fourteen she spent twelve days in Geneva , and soon fell under Malan 's spell : |
| 30 | Mrs Lynde already knew about Anne 's troubles at school , and she was always very pleased when people asked her to help . |